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HOME NEWS. 
Saturday, November 17,1S88. 
As the official figures of the late elections 
come in, doubts arise as to which party will 
control the Lower House of Congress. Each 
party is known to have 159 members so that 
there can be no doubt about the politics of 
318 members out of the 325; the doubt is 
about the seven others. In any case the ma¬ 
jority will be very small; with the probability 
strongly in favor of the Rebublicans. 
There’s a great deal of talk about the 
probable composition of President Harrison’s 
Cabinet. It is supposed the section from 
which members may come will influence the 
next election. This rule didn’t work with 
Cleveland, as shown here: Whitney and 
Fairchild, New-York, Republican plurality, 
13,000; Vilas, Wisconsin, Republican plural¬ 
ity, 15,000; Dickinson. Michigan, Repub¬ 
lican plurality, 22,000; Endicott, Mass¬ 
achusetts, Republican plurality, 32,000; 
Bayard, Delaware, Republcan Legislature 
and a United States Senator. 
Elections in Indiana are expensive for both 
parties. In the recent campaign the Republi¬ 
can committee expended 8250,000 while 
$142,000 were expended by the Democrats. 
..It was supposed that the late prosecutions 
and convictions of some of the “Bald-Knob- 
bers,” of the Ozark Mountains in Southern 
Missiouri, had broken up the gang. Last Mon¬ 
day one of the four convicted murderers was 
sentenced to be hanged on December 19. Two 
hundred disguised members of the band called 
upon four of the chief witnesses at midnight 
and after luring them out or breaking into their 
homes, shot them to pieces. The whole of 
Christian County is under a reign of terror. 
The Sheriff is at the scene of the murders 
with a large posse of men. 
Joseph Chamberlain, English politician and 
diplomat, arrived in this city last Monday, 
and on Thursday was married at Washington 
to Miss Mary Endicott, only daughter of our 
Secretary of War. Though he doesn’t look 
over 40, he is 52, a widower and the father 
of eight children. She Is 25. 
John W. Keeley is in contempt before the 
court of common pleas at Philadelphia, be¬ 
cause he has neglected to explain the workings 
and construction of his motor.A sche¬ 
dule of Gen Sheridan’s estate has oeen filed 
and foots up $65,000, including his real estate 
at Washington and on the island of Nan¬ 
tucket, his library, his valuable swords and 
other articles. As most of this property is 
unproductive, Mrs Sheridan will be left with 
a very small income, and a few friends are 
raising a fund of $100,000 for her benefit. 
.Judge Thurman celebrated the 75th 
anniversary of his birth, Tuesday. 
. .Vice-President Levi Morton is the wealthiest 
man ever on the Presidential electoral ticket. 
He is worth over $20.000,000.The 
Anarchists of Chicago are reported to have 
greatly increased in numbers, and to be thor¬ 
oughly organized. The headquarters of 
Anarchy, however, is said to be in this city. 
The 14th of July next, the 100th anniversary 
of the fall of the Bastile, the infamous Pari¬ 
sian prison, is said to be appointed as the day 
for a preconcerted uprising of the wretches 
in this country.The deep water 
ship channel between Montreal and Quebec, 
which has cost $3,000 000, has been completed. 
This is expected greatly to promote Canadian 
shipping interests _A phenomenal 
snow-storm visited northern Kansas late last 
week, blockading the railroads, suspending 
telegrahic communication and doing much 
miscellaneous damage. Parts of Nebraska, 
Iowa and Missouri also had snow, and much 
fell on the Lower St. Lawrence in Canada.... 
There are now eight telegraphic cables between 
North America and Europe. They average 
3,000 miles long, and in all the world there 
are something like 100,000 miles of sub-marine 
telegraph lines. South America is connected 
with Europe by a cable from Lisbon, 
Portugal, to Pernambuco, Brazil, a distance 
of 3.333 nautical miles. This is the longest 
cable.... A mine explosion at Pittsburg, 
Kas , last week, resulted in a large number of 
deaths, 36 bodies having been recovered at 
last accounts, and it is certain that 
many more are not reached. 
The total decrease of the public debt in 
the United States since the opening of the 
current year is $28,294,620. 
A Colorado despatch states that it now looks 
as if the Commission appointed last spring 
will be successful in removing the Utes from 
Colorado to a new reservation in Utah. This 
will throw open for settlement several hun¬ 
dred thousand acres of the best farming land 
in Colorado.Western Catholics 
have petitioned the Propaganda, at Rome, pro¬ 
testing against the preponderating influence 
of German Catholics in America. It is re¬ 
quested that the catechism shall be taught 
only in English; that no more German ser¬ 
mons shall oe preached, and that no German 
Catholic festivities be tolerated. 
Colonel John Knapp, for many years business 
manager and part owner of the Missouri 
Republican, of St. Louis, died in that city on 
Sunday night, aged 72 years. He was born 
in New York City and leaves a widow, three 
grown sons and three daughters. . 
The father of the late W. J. Youmans, editor 
of the Popular Science Monthly, was killed 
at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., the other day by being 
struck by the Boston express on the New 
Haven road. He was 96 years old. 
Gov. West says that the population of the 
Territory of Utah is now about 210,000, which 
is an increase of nearly 70,000 within the last 
eight years - Judge Gary, of the 
Superior Court, Chicago, who occupied the 
bench of the Criminal Court during the fam¬ 
ous Anarchists’ trial, has been chosen by the 
Supreme Court of the State to fill the seat in 
the Appellate Court left vacant by the death 
of Judge McAllister.Judge Brewer 
decided at Topeka, Kan., the other day, in 
the.Allen county case, in which certain alter¬ 
nate sections of land granted by the Govern¬ 
ment to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail¬ 
way, were claimed by the settlers thereon, 
that the land in question legally belongs to 
the railroad company. The settlers must 
therefore give up possession. The land em¬ 
braces a large amount of the most fertile 
farming lands in the county. About 5.000 
settlers are thus thrown out of their 
homes. Many of them have occupied the 
land for 10 or 15 years and have 
made extensive improvements. 
Senator Stanford hopes to have the Uni¬ 
versity buildings at Palo Alto, Cal.—or that 
portion of them now in course of buildine— 
ready for dedication in May next, on the 21st 
anniversary of his dead son’s birth. . United 
States Circuit Judge Sawyer,of San Francisco, 
has rendered a decision in tbe test cases of two 
Chinese in which he holds that inasmuch as 
they were born in the United States, they are 
citizens thereof and not amenable to the Act 
of Congress excluding Chinese laborers. 
.W. H. Barnum. member of the Demo¬ 
cratic National Committee, has been seriously 
ill in his home at Lime Rock, Conn, but is re¬ 
covering. .In the recent election Gover¬ 
nor Gordon, of Georgia, received 1 22.785 votes, 
with not more than 400 against him. 
Mrs Jay Gould is paralyzed on one side of her 
body and unable to talk, and her physicians 
have no hopes of her recovery. By 
double any previous majority in the Territory 
Joseph M. Carey, Republican, has been re¬ 
elected Delegate to Congress from Wyom* 
ing over Caleb P. Organ, Democrat. 
Western Kansas farmers have petitioned the 
railroads to reduce rates on grain, feed, etc., 
which they are compelled to buy in order to 
support their stock over winter. The crop of 
grain in that locality has been exceedingly 
light for the past two years. The 
Department of State has been informed by 
the United States Consul at Ottawa, that the 
Privy Council of the Dominion has just passed 
an “Order in Council,” raising the export duty 
on pine saw logs from $2 to $3 per 1,000 feet, 
board measure. A number of American 
timber speculators have bought large tracts 
of Canadian timber land, and of late years 
they have been shipping a great number of 
logs into this country where all the work on 
them is done. They are now prepared to do 
more than usual this winter. Last year Can¬ 
ada put up the export tax on timber to stop 
this business; now it is put up higher, and if 
this rise doesn’t stop it, another will be made. 
. .About 40 manufacturers of straw wrapping- 
paper from various parts of the coimtry have 
been in secret session in Chicago for the past 
two days endeavoring to arrange a pool or 
Trust on that class of goods. It is understood 
that an agreement has been reached. The 
manufacturers say that they have been losing 
money for several years, and that the object 
of the present movement is to add $5 per ton 
to the price of their product, which 
now sells for $30 per ton. 
A coal fever rages a> Astoria, Ore., and some 
fifty persons have filed claims on supposed 
coal lands.Two ocean steamers, 
the Cunarder Umbria, and a “tramp” English 
steamer, the Iberia, from Aleppo, collided off 
Sandy Hook, Nov. 10th, and the latter sank in 
a few hours. The passengers aud crew were 
saved by the Umbria.The Board of 
Directors of the Onio Centennial held a meet¬ 
ing Nov. 9, to devise means for raising money 
to make up the deficiency in its accounts. 
The State Board of Agriculture solved the 
question by agreeing to take the permanent 
buildings at $20,000 as soon as a loan for that 
amount can be negotiated..Major- 
General O. O. Howard, commanding the 
Division of the Pacific, has been ordered to 
take command of the Division of the Atlantic 
with headquarters at this city. General Miles 
succeeds General Howard in command of the 
Division of the Pacific, with headquar¬ 
ters at San Francisco. Col. Grierson will 
succeed Miles in command of the Depart¬ 
ment of Arizona and Col. Carr will com¬ 
mand the Department of New Mexico. 
A week ago the seven-story structure occu¬ 
pied by the Steam Guage and Lantern Com¬ 
pany in Rochester, N. Y. ,was burned with ap¬ 
palling loss of life. The number of dead already 
taken from the ruins amounts to 33, and al¬ 
though work has been hard pushed since the 
catastrophe, more bodies are still supposed to 
be buried under the debris, as about 40 are 
missing. The engineer has been arrested on 
the charge that he purposely set fire to the 
place. Several fires had broken out in other 
places where he had been employed and he 
was suspected of having started them. 
Henry George, the single-tax theorist, is on 
his way to England where he will lec¬ 
ture on his favorite subject. 
At Valley Falls, near Grafton, W. Va., 
Thursday, on the Baltimore and Ohio R. R., 
an express train running 30 miles an hour, 
dashed into a side-tracked freight train 
through the blunder of a new brakeman. 
Two wrecked trains; five deaths; several 
wounded .The Bank of Durham, N. 
C., of which W. T. Blackwell, manufacturer 
of “Durham Bull” tobacco, bad control, col¬ 
lapsed Thursday, with liabilities amounting 
to $1,000,000. Half a dozen leading business 
firms in Durham at once failed in conse¬ 
quence. The bank loaned too largely. Its 
assets may cover its liabilities.Yellow 
Jack still dominates Jacksonville, Fla. 
Here’s the statement to date;—(the new cases 
and deaths occurred during the last 24 hours). 
Number of new cases.. . .16 
Number of deaths.4 
Number of cases to date.4,568 
Total deaths to date.396 
None of the fugitives are allowed to enter the 
place as yet; but all are supported and housed 
gratis in a camp in the neighborhood. The 
public contributions amount to over $335,000, 
besides the generous aid given by the Govern¬ 
ment. New cases of yellow fever 
are constantly appearing at Gamsville, Fla. 
At Live Oak the fever seems to have fully 
abated, there having been no new cases dur¬ 
ing the past 15 days.Rear- Ad¬ 
miral Charles H. Baldwin is dying of Bright’s 
disease in this city, aged 66. Made midship¬ 
man in 1836. Fought under Farragut at Fort 
Jackson and St. Philip at the capture of I 
New Orleans, and at the first attack 
on Vicksburg in 1862. 
News lrom the Levant. 
From the far east comes the cheering intelli¬ 
gence of the beneficial effects of that wonder¬ 
ful revitalizing agent, the Compound Oxygen, 
manufactured by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
No. 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa., or 331 
Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. 
“Will you be so kind as to send to my address 
two bottles of the Compound Oxygen. I think 
that I am benefited by the Compouud Oxygen. 
Mrs. Farnsworth, of Ceserea, Ancient Cappo- 
docoa, and Mrs. Riggs of Antioch, near Aleppo 
are also sure that they have been benefited. 
Please send as soon as possible. J. G. Bliss 
“Levant Agency, Bible House, Constanti¬ 
nople, Feb. 8, 1887.” 
For futher information direct as above for 
their interesting brochure, which will be sent 
free by mail.— Adv. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Saturday, November, 17, 1888. 
In London a horrible sensation overtops all 
other topics. Within a circle whose diameter 
is little over a quarter of a mile, in White¬ 
chapel, the lowest part of the “East End” of 
London, nine horrible murders have recent¬ 
ly been committed at night, evidently by the 
same fiend, and the police have been unable 
to discover absolutely any trace of him. In all 
cases the victims have been disreputable 
women of the lowest class, and in all cases 
they have been horribly mutilated, plainly 
by a person with some surgical skill. Tbe 
butcher declared that he would kill 15 
before he stopped. All London, all Eng¬ 
land is excited to the highest pitch. Gen. 
Sir Charles Warren, Chief of Police, has been 
forced to resign owing to the inefficiency of 
his force. Popular clamor demands the 
resignation of Mr Mathews, Home Secretary, 
also. Should another of these murders occur 
soon, and the police fail to discover the 
murderer, the Government may be over¬ 
thrown. The perpetrator is generally sup¬ 
posed to be a maniac on one point—the belief 
that he has a mission to punish the class of 
women who are always his victims. 
..The Emperor of Austria has appointed the 
King of Denmark and the King of Sweden 
honorary Colonels. This will give two Kings 
a chance to buy another'uniform.The 
first through express train from Paris arrived 
at Constantinople last Saturday.Reports 
conflict as to the fate of Stanley Africanus. 
Some say he’s certainly dead; others insist 
that he must still be alive. It’s mere guess¬ 
work. The latest news from Central Africa 
is that the mysterious white Pasha on the 
Bahr-el Gazel has defeated a large force sent 
against him by the Mahdi. Many maintain 
that this white Pasha must be Stanley on the 
ground that it canuot be Emin Bey, whose 
relief was the object of Stanley’s expedition, 
and that no other white man, except Stanley, 
could be at the head of a body of men in that 
section.The present Mahdi, successor 
to the slayer of Gen. Gordon, is actively 
carrying on hostilities against the troops left 
in the Soudan by the Egyptians on the final 
evacuation of the country after Gordon’s 
disaster. The other day 70,000 of his follow¬ 
ers after a fierce battle, captured Wadai, west 
of Darfour. If he continues successful he will 
doubtless soon march northward and attack 
the English garrison stationed on the present 
Southern Egyptian frontier at Khartoum. 
. .The announcement of the death of John M. 
Schleyer, the inventer of “Volapuk,” is con¬ 
tradicted by Mr. Schleyer himself in his 
paper, the “Volapukt.bled and Foreigu Zeno- 
dik.”.A college of carpentry for 
women has been started in the old university 
town of Cambridge, Eng. It is intended not 
so much to teach the trade as to develop 
manual dexterity among women . 
The exports of diamonds from South Africa 
for 1887 were 3,598.930 carats, worth $21,200, 
000, against 3,135,000 carats, worth $17,500,000 
for the previous year-Duke Maximilian 
of Bavaria, who was stricken with apoplexy a 
few days ago, is dead. He was eighty years 
of age, and the father of the beautiful but 
eccentric Empress of Austria. 
AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
Saturday, November 17, 1888. 
Importers of horses during the first nine 
months of the current year brought 1,343 
English and Scotch horses into United States 
ports, and 2,456 into Canadian ports. Great 
Britain further exported 1,739 horses to Bel¬ 
gium. 1,241 to Holland, and 1,073 to France 
in the same period. The value of these horses 
is over three million dollars.There 
are now 212 trotting horses with records of 
2:19% or better.California has 
shown up five remarkable young pacers this 
season in Yolo Maid, 2:14; Adonis, 2:14V; 
Gold Leaf, 2:15; Almont Patchen. 2:15 aud 
Belmont Boy, 2:15 .The match-race 
between the trotting stallions Prince Wilkes, 
2.14%, aud Patron, 2:14%, came off at Nash¬ 
ville, Tenn., on Wednesday, October 31, in 
the presence of a large crowd. Prince Wilkes 
won in straight heats in 2:15%, 2:20and 2:18% 
.The National Agricultural Society of 
Victoria, New South Wales, has resolved 
“that, with a view to improving the stamp of 
horses, the Society ask the Government to 
place an annual tax of $50 or upwards on 
stallions three years of age or over. 
The famous old trotting mare Lucy 2:18%, 
by Geo. M. Patchen 2:23%, was found dead 
in the pasture at Fashion Stud Farm, Tren¬ 
ton, N. J., last week. She was the last of the 
celebrated old-timers, including Goldsmith 
Maid 2:14, and Lady Tnorn 2:18%.Ex¬ 
ports of apples up to November 3, amounted 
to 454,254, barrels against 250,090 barrels at 
the same date last year.Only 16,600 
bushels of wheat in the form of grain were 
exported from Atlantic ports week before last, 
while 578,000 bushels, or 37 times as much, 
was sent abroad in the form of flour. 
Although the clover seed crop is light, there 
is said to be plenty of clover seed on the mar¬ 
kets of the East The seed is full and very 
fine-looking, being fully up to the average. 
The new and old seed bring about the same 
prices.Within a radius of forty miles 
of Rochester, N. Y., there are more than 
1,500 fruit evaporators. These evaporators 
give employment during the Autumn and 
Winter to about 30.000 hands, whose wages 
average from $5 to $12 a week. Last season 
the production of these evaporators 
was about 300,000,000 pounds, worth at 
first cost about $2,000,000 . 
Australia is building a fence of wire netting 
8.000 miles long to keep jack rabbits out of 
Queensland.The exports of live 
stock and dressed meats from Boston for the 
English markets last week were 587 live cattle 
and 4.120 quarters of beef.American 
cattle are now bringing 10 cents per pound 
abroad, estimated dressed weight.. 
A Nevada man raised a potato this seasou 
so large that when he sent it to a friend by 
mail, he had to pay fifty cents postage on it. 
Another Nevada man shows three potatoes 
which respectively weigh nine, six and five 
pounds. The average weight of hogs 
received at Chicago last month was four 
pounds heavier than in October of last year 
and five pounds heavier than two years ago.. 
.The Nova Scotia crop reports say the 
yields of wheat, barley, oats and peas have 
been a good average, but all the other crops 
are below the average, owing to unfavorable 
weather.There have been of late and 
are now very heavy importations of beaus 
from Europe.Dr. Newton, New Jersey 
Dairy Commissioner, has discovered and 
promptly punished cases of selling oleomar¬ 
garine for butter in Perth Amboy. 
Our friend Dr. Hoskins has just paid $2,500 
for a farm of 120 acres near his old home at 
Newport, Vt. The buildings alone are, he 
says, worth two-thirds of the money. Hither¬ 
to he has had only a 12-acre farm . 
C. J. Jones, of Golden City, Kan., a member 
of the Legislature and a wealthy rancher, has 
purchased Major Bedson’s entire herd of tame 
buffaloes at VVinnipeg, Man., consisting of 50 
head, and is conveying the animals to his 
ranch in Kansas, where he has about a dozen 
head. It is said that the Domininn Govern¬ 
ment is offering big inducements to Mr. Jones 
if he will resell tbe buffaloes so as to retain them 
on their corral at Stony Mountain.. 
John B Dutcher, of Pawling, N. Y., has just 
paid the highest price ever paid for a bull calf 
in this country—$2,500, for a Holstein-Friesian 
six-week-old twin son of Pieterje 2d. 
In this, as in every community, there are 
those who are out of work, or who are employ¬ 
ed at very unsatisfactory wages. To any and 
all such we would say, write to B. F. Johnson 
&Co., 1009 Main St., Richmond, Va. They 
can show you “a better way.” Capital not 
necessary.— Adv. 
Crops & iilariifts. 
Saturday, November 17, 1888. 
The November returns of yield of corn, 
made to the Department of Agriculture, in¬ 
dicate a yield per acre quite as large as that 
of 1885, and larger than any other crop since 
that of 1880. The aggregate, grown on a 
larger area, will exceed that of any previous 
American product, being very close to 2,000, 
000,000 bushels or about 32 bushels per capita, 
which has been exceeded in several previous 
years. The corn-surplus States average yields 
as follows: Ohio 35.2 bushels, Indiana 35, 
Illinois 36.2, Iowa 37, Missouri 31, Kansas 27, 
Nebraska 36. These seven States produce 
64 per cent, of the aggregate crop. The 
general average will fall somewhat under 27 
oushels. There is a good supply of maize in 
nearly all parts of the South, so tnat compara¬ 
tively little will be required from the West. 
The yields of the Atlantic States are moder¬ 
ate, seriously reduced by frost on the northern 
border. 
After three years of low yields, potatoes 
give an average of about 80 bushels per acre, 
or nearly the rate of yield of 1879. The aver¬ 
ages of prominent potato-growing S'ates are 
as follows: Maine 110 busbels, New York 82, 
Pennsylvania 82, Omo 80, Michigan 75, Indi¬ 
ana 75, Illinois 80, Iowa 90, Mmnesota 95, 
Dakota 80, Nebraska 80. The yield has been 
increased in the South. It is high iu the 
northern belt of territories. The total pro¬ 
duct on the basis of these averages is about 
195,000,000 bushels, or 61,000,000 more thau 
the estimated product of 1887. 
The average yield of buckwheat is approxi¬ 
mately 12 bushels per acre; and the crop 
nearly 11,000,000 bushels. The average for 
New York is 11 bushels, Pennsylvania 14, 
Michigan 12 5, Indiana 11.4, Illinois 12.6, 
Wisconsin 9.5, Minnesota 11, Iowa 10 8, Mis¬ 
souri 10.7, Kansas 9.5, Nebraska 11.3. 
Hay is a crop slightly above an average in 
yield, or 1.22 ton per acre. It has been no¬ 
where seriously injured by drought. There 
is a strong tendency to increase the area in 
the Bouth, and the yields, upon cultivated 
areas rather than natural meadows, are rela¬ 
tively large. 
The Mark Lane Express, in its review of the 
British grain trade during the past week, 
says the changeable weather has favored 
wheat sowing and the planting of the 1889 
crop has progressed to such an extent as to 
make the outlook favorable beyond what the 
